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It turns out an astroturf American football field probably weighs 1700 tons, mostly from the 6 inches of stone base under the astroturf. So 3300lbs is .00097 football fields.

Well, I'd say cross-compiling is at least a little problematic... if nothing else, it is a hurdle to running automated tests. And cross-compiling still needs to exist for the peopl…

> There are no beefy 32-bit ARM servers. "Ampere processors natively support both 32 & 64 bit Android applications and require no binary translation for maximum instance density" .…

It was true in 2005, but still? As I described in another post here, a modern strategy is to get a beefy server than can run the same ABI, then start a docker container and assembl…

I'm not familiar with the problems that would cause "target build environment often differs significantly from your server environment". If you have an ARM server, then you should …

I share some of the same observations that seem to have motivated this project, but my solution was to just use Alpine on the same architecture as the target (possibly via qemu) an…

Implementing a WoW classic server is actually fairly easy. The game client comes with the entire engine, art, music, and quest content. The server is basically a fancy IRC server, …

We're talking about hit games created specifically as a sequel to a hit mod of another game, and communication to the community of the hit mod that this is where the developers are…

It was a "hit game" while it was still a mod. They were able to find investment to graduate to a standalone game because they already had a player base in the tens of thousands.

Yeah but for $6/mo you can get a tiny linode or digital ocean droplet, and not worry about hardware failing. It's true that a laptop probably has more resources than the smallest V…

Maybe at rendering menus and documents, but flash had graphic routines written in optimized assembly that simply weren't possible with JavaScript on that era of hardware. I feel li…

I still hate touch and would still buy a keyboard phone if anyone was making a good one

Maybe the large number of standard library functions that operate on globals and require you to remember the "_r" variant of that function exists, or the mess with handling signals…

The third mitigating feature the article forgot to mention is that tmpfs can get paged out to the swap partition. If you drop a large file there and forget it, it will all end up i…

But then, ICQ also died of spam...

But then you can just ask it to write that missing library! Some day in the future you can probably ask it to author the whole package and publish it itself. "Oh sorry, that packag…

You're using 100GbE ... in an end-user PC? What would you even saturate that with?

In most of the video clips I saw, he was saying "I don't know anything about that", which could be entirely true. Often I see hints that he's attempting to play the Aes Sedai game …

If they cared about fiscal responsibility they wouldn't have passed the 2017 tax cuts, or be trying to renew them now. IMHO taxes were fine in the 2010-2017 era and if we'd just ke…

He said where untrusted parties aren't able to run rsync. If I was running an rsync daemon facing the public, it would be in a chroot with dropped privileges.

If you're hosting it yourself, I would expect that you also make backups of your whole server and/or database if one is involved. A custom backup feature built into the app seems r…

O(n) is generally indistinguishable from O(log n) so if there is any chance of different behavior than the expected optimum, go with the better algorithm.

Why was the solution not to get rid of the linked list and replace it with a red/black tree?

Its true that rich people often (always?) "have debts", but not true that they are "in debt" overall, otherwise they wouldn't really be rich anymore. Poor and middle-class people a…

I think every single thing Trump did during the last 3 months hurt his campaign, actually. It had just already gotten to the point where nothing he said mattered, because people we…